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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY OONCERN:

Be it known that I, GEORGE AUGUSTUS BALL, of the city and county of San Francisco, State of `California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ruling Machines for ruling paper; aud I do hereby declare the following description and accompanying drawings are suicient toenable any person skilled in the art or science to which it most nearly appertains, to make and use my said invention or improvements without further invention or experiment. i i

The principle of my invention consists in the whole of the striking process necessary in ruling paper, with the operation of laying on not requiring the aid of hand-labor to perform the work as heretofore. Referring to the drawingsi Figure l represents a side elevation of my machine.

Figure 2, an end view showing the feed-cylinder.

Figure 3, head of cylinder, showing wheels and pinion, nut-rods and springs, also port-ions of frame with camsattached.

Figures 4 and 5, front and edge view of cam-wheel, arm of pen-bar, and pen-bar.

Figure 6, feed-board and gangers.

Figure 7, substitute for wheel F.

A A are the standards and body frames of the machine; B and B are the driving-shaft and pinion, receiving motion from steam or any motive agent, and communicating the same to the wheel C, which takes into and gears with the shaft l). Keyed on to the cylinder shaft is a pinion, @with spur F, whose inner dial has a raised slotted ring, Gr, cut in the wheel with three long and three short curves or segments H H H, h h L, which are held in place by washers 1, 1 and bolt-s 2, 2, and are movable in the slots, thus forming an eccentric communi-v eating the up-and-down motion to the pen bar. The-pen bar I is constructed in the usual way, with groove screws for holding the clamp of pens. An arm, J, is aixed to the bar K, also to the pen bar, which is adjustyable by a set-screw and check-.nut regulating the position of the pen-bar from right to left. The arm J has a `friction-roller, Ii, resting upon the ring G and segments I-I, lt, etc. this arm is raised and lowered, the upper portion being adjustable in a rest or band, b, and moved by set-screws c c, which regulate the action of the pen bar when in motion, (shown in gs. 4 and 5.) The surface of the cylinder O is divided into sections, between which is placed a rod, cZ, to which nippers cl d are attached, (movable to the right and left,rand adjustable by setscrcws,) and operated by spur P on wheel-P with segments of cogs. A pin, E, is placed ou the dial of said wheel, which opens and shuts the nippers by moving through cams ff, the nippers being held firmly down upon the cylinder by bar and spring g and g', figs. 2 and 3. The blocks on the cylinder are inserted between the sections and between the--nippers to preserve the circular form ot' the surface of said cylinder, and are movable to the'right and left according to the nippers on the rod, shown in figs. 2 and 3.

By this arrangement of machines for ruling paper, which I have failed to discover in any other machine, a device similar in character to be used for the same purpose, the sheet is placed upon the feed-board R against j the gauge j, (upon which the roam is' laid,) the head of the sheet being pressed against the pins upon the bar K-, which lis adjustable by means of the rods Z Z and loclenuts m m, and is grasped by the nippcrs underneath the cylinder andcarried under the pen-bar, where it is released by the nippers, being held in place upon the cylinder by the strings u u n, and borne from the cylinder by the strings 0 o 0 to the cloth T, and thence to the box p in the usual way. The strings o 0 o pass around the cylinder and over the grooved roller U. The strings una pass around the rollers V X Y and grooved roller Y', being moved by pressure against the cylinder between the roller V and grooved roller which is set in movable journals to regulate the tension of the strings. In order to arrivo at the same results for ruling, by a different method, the wheel O and cam-plate 3 may be substituted for the wheel F and slotted ring G, by simply changing the wheels, (shown in iig. 7.) To prevent blotting, I place India-rubber cloth, z, around the cylinder, covered with blotting paper. The edge of each section of the cylinder, where the nipples strike, is chamfered,`and strips of gutta pei-cha e placed in the depressions upon which thc nippers fall, for the purpose of holding the paper more tightly than could be done between two hard substances.

It is coniidently believed that by the use of my improved ruling machine full tive times more labor can be pcrformedin a given time than by the ordinary machines now in use. I I I Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The division of the cylirider into 'any number of sections,l with nippel-s Working between each section, and the ntroducingiof movable blocks z'zz'between each npper, -to preserve the circular form of the cylinder, in combination with the nippers, substantially 4:is described. x

2. Covering the cylinder with India-rubber cloth z, and piercing upon the edge of' cach section, where the nippers strike, a. strip of gutta-pelclia, z', as described and for ther purposes set forth.

3. The gaugej, rods ZZ, and lock-mits m m, affixed -to the feed-board, iii combination with feed-board R.

In Witnesswhereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 17th day of April, 1866.v

GEO. A. BALL. [13. e]-

Wil-Snesses:

' C. C. OLNEY,

C. M. SMITH. 

